THE REPOLITICIZATION OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE JOURNAL MSF INFORMATION (1997- 2020)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reflect on the humanitarian work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on an analysis of the periodical Informação, published by the organization since 1997. Considering that MSF's work is structured around three axes - medical care, humanitarian aid and collective dissemination/sensitization - we analyze how the magazine sought, in its content, not only to showcase its activities and raise public awareness of human suffering, but also to promote a repoliticization of humanitarian action, in the sense proposed by Didier Fassin. In this context, by denouncing the situation of refugees and displaced people, reporting on experiences and constituting new subjectivities, the journal presents itself as a space of resistance to the adiaphorization of actions in contemporary times.